The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-24
SUPERIOR. WIS.. SATURDAY. DEC. q. 1857.


is the self-appointea defender Of JEFF
Davis, and claims that he Davis was
no traitor. that the South was loyal,
and the north furnished the traitors
and made all the trouble And this
is the kind of creature President Cleve
land would put upon the Supreme
Bench to define the laws Of the nation
for US Is our president really trying
to turn our government oyer to the
Solid South, even as old Jimmy Buch-
anan tried to do? The Senate should
sit down on Lamar.
A Travelling man, not from Chi
cago, but from the SANITY, informed
one Of our business men yesterday,
that he was positively certain that the
contract to construct the Burlington
& Northern from Maiden Rock to Du-
luth had been let.--Nec Richmond
Republican. The Republican is No
doubt correct in its information in all
the above except its allusion to Du-
luth 1t should read Superior, as the
Burlington & Northern has never
thought e building its line to Duluth
We expect the Burlington here next
.eason.
Two years ago Cleveland could.
not open his mouth or take up lis
pen without giving us some taffy on
"ciyil service reform" Now the mat
ter has become Of 50 small moment
that he does not think it worth
mentioning in his message. And still
George William Curtis makes pill
grimage to Washington, once a month
or so, to lick the dust from Mr.. Cleve-
lands shoes, so to speak, and then goes
hyme and writes an apology for the
greatest blatherskite and demagogue
in the land.
The NermIllion Iron Journal in
reply to many letters Enquiry regard
ing the townsite of Spaulding, on the
Vermillion range, put upon the mark
ct by Duluth real estate sharks last
spring says:
THE Journal can give only one
answer, and that is that Spalding at
present is a dead town-a swindle and
Il bogus place for any man to invest
in. The Iron Range road is far from
it and will not enter it. nor even come
near it.
Since June, 1886, there have been
over fifty prominent cases of embezzIc-
ment where the thief got across the
line into Canada with the plumber
and those fifty cases represent almost
100000, In time Canada will be-
come quite wealthy, and it may be
found advisable to annex.
The Vermilion Iron Journal,
heretofore strongly tinctured with
Democracy, could not endorse the
presidents Free Trade Message, and
is now out strong for Blaine for Presi-
dens. 1t is just 50 all over the ccun-
try, and Mr. Blaine will be our next
president if he lives that long.
Our Democratic friends are now
coqueting with Henry George, be
cause Henry fayors free trade aud is
anxious that the poor be made poorer
that the rich-of whom Henry is one
may be name richer, And get the
Democratic party poses as the friend
of the poor man.
VIM. Lee is the new post master
Mt st. Paul to succeed DIR. Day, whose
time has expired. According to the
Press Mr.. Lee is good man-that is
as good as it is possible for a simon
pure Democrat to be. Dr. Day has
held the office tor twelve years
The n. p. Company refuse to re-
duce their charges for passenger travel
from four to three cents per mile, as
directed by the railroad commissioner rs
of Minnesota. That company has
very little regard for law or square
dealing of any kind,
st John, the third party Prohibi-
ton demagogue has already begun to
abuse Mr.. Blaine and misapply his
words But then st John is paid 50
much to talk that way, and people
only laugh at his lies now where they
half believed him three years ago.
The Boston Journal calls atten-
ton to the fact that in 1888 the states
which had elections gave Democratic
majority Of 1921. This year the same
states gave q net Republican gain
OF lOC,oiI.
The real estate bubble in Wash
ington has burst and left a good many
lame lambs. The real estate board
reports that there are 5000 houses in
the city now vacant and to be rented.
The funeral Of S. P. Rounds OF
Omaha, and late Public Printer for
the United States, took place last
Monday. The remains were taken to
Chicago for burial.
st. Paul is boring for gas, Al
the Fair Grounds the shaft is down
1000 feet, bat no gas yet. 1t cost
1910 10 90 through Il feet of rock
Such faith comes high.